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Brace

I Adrien Grey was apart of an important time in history a time where no other would imagine that they would survive. Today I will be telling a story of which I survived a plane crash. I was just 15 years old going on a trip with my school. We started where we lived in Florida. We were all so excited for this trip it took a lot of fundraising to raise the money we needed for all forty-three of us to go.

We were going to Dallas Texas. In order to get their we would have to take a stop at one places, in Los Angeles. This wasn’t my first plane ride but it was my friends. Her name was Heather Montgomery. She had brown hair with light brown highlight she had the most perfect blue eyes. She was perfect all together and I was proud to be her friend. I was like the total opposite of her. I had blonde hair and green eyes. I was not always perfect like Heather nobody was as perfect as Heather. Heather and I did everything together we went to the movies and on road trips and we went down town together but that is beyond the point of the story I'm telling today.

It was August 2, 1985 I couldn't sleep the night before I was so excited for the trip I couldn't even express how excited I was. All that hard work payed off I deserved                                                                this trip our whole class did. I may have been excited but not as excited as Heather. She has always wanted to go on a plane and today would be her chance. I'm sure she would get bored of it after the first flight but she thought the opposite. Heather was always interested in planes. She thought that being on a plane would be flying like a bird. I let her think that for as long as she could so she wouldn't get scared to go on the plane.

As I said goodbye to my jealous siblings and my proud parents I realize that all the hard work my class and I finally payed off. I had everything I needed all my clothes and essentials like my phone and my favorite magazines for the plane ride and lastly I was going to have my best friend Heather right by my side. My mom arranged to pick Heather so she could drive her to the airport. When Heather got in the car,which took two trips because of all of the bags she had, we turned on our favorite song, “Make Me Cry” by Noah Cyrus. We sang our hearts out even though both of us were horrible singers.

When we arrived to the airport I could see the excitement in Heather’s I could also see a little bit of fear. Me on the other hand I had butterflies in my stomach and was so happy and proud of my class. Once we got in the airport we had to go through security and find our teachers. Heather and I were definitely one of the last ones there. We were just always late to everything it was the only thing we were good at but we were ok with that.

When we got there we were yelled at by the teachers for making them worry that we weren't coming. We still had thirty minutes until the plane was going to be boarding so I don't know what the big deal was. Heather was so excited to board she didn't want to sit down. She didn't know that I go first class seats for us it was a surprise for her first plane we were the only ones that got first class out of the whole class.

It was finally time to begin boarding the plane. When we entered the plane Heather entered and for the first time actually looked at her ticket and asked me what first class is and I showed her right to her seat she was speechless. The seats were way nicer than the other classes and we got more food options like ice cream,pizza, pasta. Once we got ourselves situated the plane was about to take off.

Heather was excited and kept in denying the fact that she was a little nervous. I know I was nervous for my first flight. Maybe she wasn't actually nervous I'll never know. On the plane they had the nicest flight attendants. They were so calm and were very helpful.

It was time to take off. The flight attendants went around to make sure everyone was buckled. When the plane was taking off at first it went slow just so it could get to the runway Heather was saying how it's not bad she tough the take off would be way rougher little did she know we didn't even take off but I didn't tell her that. When the plane started take off it made a roaring sound like a lion. Heather’s reaction was perfect. She was sitting up in her seat and she slammed back in her seat and she just looked mortified. I laughed and she laughed. When the plane started to go up in the sky she squeezed my hand and shut her eyes shut.

When we got in the air she asked me

“Are we there yet?” Like a five year old child would do.

I looked over at her and rolled my eyes she knew we weren't there she was messing with me. Once we got settled I got my magazines out and started to read one about Kylie Jenner’s new makeup line which was overpriced but I wasn't shocked. One of the filing that attendants came by to ask us it we wanted anything. We took advantage of our class and ordered a pepperoni pizza,two black cherry ice creams, and two ginger ales. Heather and I had a lot in common that why we ordered the same thing we liked a lot of the same things. ten minutes later our order came out. Heather and I were starving by this time it was between lunch and dinner.

Once we finished our meal we started to plan what we were going to do when we got to Dallas. There was so much to do. We talked for an hour and we were still three hours away to Los Angeles. We kept on growing through little storm clouds. The flight attendants said that they would stop soon. We just started to ignore it.

The pilot turned on the buckle up lights on the plane. We buckled up and we got very curious of what was happening we were still two hours and thirty minutes away. The flight attendants were in the back and they started yelling stuff but we could hear them. Heather was scared I told her everything would be just fine I told to think about something happy. I started to hear what the flight attendants were saying. They were saying brace,brace,brace head down stay down. Thoughts flooded in my head. We were going to crash and we were over land. Heather heard the. And looked at me and said with sad big blue eyes

“Adrien, I'm scared.”

I looked at her and held her hand we looked at each other and just stared speechless we were going to go down. The words echoed in my head the good byes of my families the flight attendants saying brace,brace,brace head down stay down and Heather looking at me telling me she was scared. Everything was going through my head it echoed many times. Heather then said to me

“See you on the other side”

With a calming smile on her face a tear dripped down my face I looked at her and said with confidence

“ we are going to make it's through this everything will be ok we aren't going to die.”

Heather looked at me then crunched down in her seat and covered her neck. I did the same as the words echoed through my head I started to cry a lot. Thinking what my family would do when they were told I didn't make it to Dallas. They would be devastated. That is why we were going to be fine Heather and I and everyone on the plane were going to make it through this. When I felt the plane shaking I felt the gravity give up that's when I knew we were crashing. I held on to Heather with my life. Heather said to me

“Good luck” with a shaking voice

The plane was broken the pilots had no control over it. I peeked out of the window and witnessed the plane running into a field hitting the ground. I passed out after that. I woke up and thought it was all a dream. I slowly woke up realizing I had cuts and scratches all over me. I looked over to Heather. I nudged her trying to wake her up. She couldn't be dead she probably just got scared and passed out I was too scared to check if she had a heart beat or not. I didn't want to just give up on her. I looked at myself and that there was a lot more blood everywhere than before. It wasn't mine either. It was Heather. It was only her first plane she was so excited so happy to be on the plane going to Dallas but we never made it we weren't going to. I checked her heartbeat finally I couldn't think about if she was dead or alive I had to declare it myself.

I checked the heartbeat but there was none. I was in shock my best friend was gone. I scooped her into  my arm telling myself that this didn't just happen it was all a dream. No it wasn't a dream I needed to wake up this was real life it wasn't fake. I looked at Heather  my best friend dead in my arms gone forever. She didn't die peacefully but forcefully from a plane. I sat and cried for what seemed for hours.

I heard crying a baby's cry i got up and ran to the back of the plane. I saw someone. He was from my class his name was Lucas he had already gotten the crying baby from his mother whom did not make it through the plane crash. I keep waking I was in a good condition for being in a plane crash. I go towards Lucas and say

“Lucas?”

He turned around slowly cradling the baby in his arms the baby had not even a scratch on it. Lucas had scratches and cuts all over him. He turned to me  and said

“Adrien?”

He was shocked he then said

“I didn't know if any of the other survived,we need to get help or I'm going to bleed out and it will be you and this baby left to survive.”

He was right he was already bleeding his skin looked pale from him bleeding. How would we get help though there had to be something to get us out of here. There had to be fireworks somewhere but before I could move I heard a helicopter. A whole rescue team was here. I ran to Heather and said my goodbyes I realized she had a necklace around her neck it was a locket of her and I on our road trip I took it as a piece of her to remind myself of her everyday.

 

When we got to a hospital it was too late for Lucas he had bled out already. Out of the people on the plane it was only me and the baby that survived. The baby had no parents to take care of it. The baby was a girl newborn. I wanted to convince my mom to adopt her she was going to have to be an orphan if we didn't. It would take us a while to get home but I knew once I got home I would be planning my trip to Dallas for Heather I would redeem her we would make it to Dallas.